[attributes] --- label: January 2019 update of the WDPA layout: template-resource target_page: categories: - Updates & News is_published: true position: 46 [categories topics] wdpa [categories types] [text resource_link_text] [text resource_link_url] [text resource_file_title] [file resource_file] [text display_version_alert] 1 [text social-title] [text social-description] [text_custom summary] The total number of protected area records in the January 2019 release of the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is 242,276 comprising of 221,503 polygons and 20,773 points, covering 245 countries and territories. [date_not_null published_date] 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC [wysiwyg content]

The total number of protected area records in the January 2019 release of the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is 242,276 comprising of 221,503 polygons and 20,773 points, covering 245 countries and territories.

Highlights:

European Environment Agency (EEA) Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA): Complete update of 48 countries and territories. 7,027 polygons have been added to the WDPA, along with 795 points. Points in the CDDA were previously buffered before being submitted to the WDPA. This is no longer the case, and as a result 3,062 polygons were converted to points during this update. 91,960 polygons have been updated or verified.

Chile: Update of all national sites in Chile. Chile provided a full national update in January 2018. Since then there has been a further addition of two new marine/ coastal protected areas: Tortel Área Marina Costera Protegida (6,702km2), Seno Almirantazgo Área Marina Costera Protegida (764km2), and 2 terrestrial sites: Melimoyu Parque Nacional (1,054km2), Pumalín Douglas Tompkins Parque Nacional (4,023km2). Some governance types, ownership types and management authorities were updated too. The boundary of one Ramsar site, Bahia Lomas, has been updated. Aracurias UNESCO MAB site also has an updated polygon, and has expanded from two small sites covering 933km2 to its new extent of 11,428km2.

Country	Update type	Polygon			Point				Point converted to polygon
Country	Update type	Added	Removed	Updated		Added	Removed	Updated	Point converted to polygon
Chile	Complete	4	0	202		0	0	0	0
Albania	Complete	2	0	55		742	0	0	0
Austria	Complete	0	0	1159		0	0	0	0
Belgium	Complete	23	43	1422		0	0	0	0
Bulgaria	Complete	32	2	1014		0	0	0	0
Cyprus	Complete	0	0	56		0	0	0	0
Czech Republic	Complete	57	19	2606		0	0	0	0
Germany	Complete	216	110	17430		0	0	0	0
Denmark	Complete	0	0	1917		0	0	0	0
Estonia	Complete	3948	185	7522		0	0	0	945
Finland	Complete	785	634	12058		0	0	0	0
France	Complete	97	5	2787		0	0	0	0
Great Britain	Complete	0	0	9387		0	0	0	0
Greece	Complete	0	0	803		0	0	0	0
Greenland	Complete	0	0	12		0	0	0	0
Hungary	Complete	1	0	307		0	0	0	0
Ireland	Complete	0	0	155		0	0	0	0
Iceland	Complete	0	2	112		1	0	0	0
Italy	Complete	0	0	871		0	0	0	0
Liechtenstein	Complete	2	5	39		0	0	0	0
Lithuania	Complete	0	0	479		0	0	0	0
Luxembourg	Complete	7	0	116		0	0	0	0
Latvia	Complete	0	32	677		0	0	0	0
Spain	Complete	16	1	1778		0	0	0	0
Saint Martin	Complete	0	2	18		0	0	0	0
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	Complete	0	0	75		4	0	0	0
Malta	Complete	30	0	228		0	0	0	0
Montenegro	Complete	0	1	3		48	0	0	0
Martinique	Complete	11	1	56		0	0	0	0
Mayotte	Complete	8	7	20		0	0	0	0
Netherlands	Complete	0	0	180		0	0	0	0
Norway	Complete	82	11	2921		0	0	0	0
Poland	Complete	14	2	2032		0	0	0	0
Portugal	Complete	4	0	225		0	0	0	0
Reunion	Complete	0	1	31		0	0	0	0
Romania	Complete	169	0	775		0	0	0	0
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	Complete	0	0	30		0	0	0	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Complete	0	0	2		0	0	0	0
Serbia	Complete	46	2	319		0	0	0	0
Slovakia	Complete	39	22	1152		0	0	0	0
Slovenia	Complete	1	2	1174		0	0	0	0
Sweden	Complete	470	23	13660		0	0	0	0
Switzerland	Partial	4	0	200		0	0	0	0

Added: New feature added in the WDPA (i.e. a new WDPAID was created)

Removed: Number of feature removed from the WDPA (i.e. a WDPAID was removed from the database)

Updated: Modifications/updates of the geometry or some attributes of existing feature in the WDPA (i.e. a feature with an existing WDPAID.

Map of Protected Areas based upon monthly update

Citation: UNEP-WCMC (2019). Protected areas map of the world, January 2019 Available at: www.protectedplanet.net

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WDPA Manual

WDPA User Manual: We are pleased to announce that the WDPA User Manual has been translated into French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic. Additionally, the Manual has been updated with an appendix on WDPA Data Contributor Agreements (Appendix 2), and has undergone general updates and edits based on user feedback. Version 1.5 of the User Manual is now available in five languages via the following links:

English: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual

French: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual_FR

Spanish: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual_ES

Russian: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual_RU

Arabic: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual_AR

New: Protected Area Management Effectiveness– Country pages on Protected Planet now display information on the management effectiveness of national-level protected areas, as reported by data providers. Pages for individual protected areas now also provide information on whether the sites have Monitoring and Evaluation data in the Global Database on Protected Area Management Effectiveness (GD-PAME).

Summary of current data in preparation:

The data set status is defined as either:
1) New data set received, 2) Under review by UNEP-WCMC, 3) Under validation by data provider or 4) Final approval stages.

Brazil: Under validation by data provider

Canada: Under review by UNEP-WCMC

Colombia Final approval stages

Costa Rica: Under validation by data provider

Falkands Islands (Malvinas): Under validation by data provider

Mozambique: Under validation by data provider

Nigeria: Under validation by data provider

Peru: Under validation by data provider

Seychelles: Under validation by data provider

Kenya: Under review by UNEP-WCMC

Vietnam: Under review by UNEP-WCMC

Cameroon: Under review by UNEP-WCMC

Congo (Democratic Republic of): Under review by UNEP-WCMC